2007 Features :
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12/27/07 - Family Matters: Astronomer Studies Exoplanet Nurseries
You could say that science runs in Rachel Akeson's family. The daughter of two scientists, and now a mother herself, Akeoson is studying young stars as they develop their own planetary families.
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12/25/07 - Happy Holidays
Happy holidays, courtesy of the Cassini-Huygens Project Team studying Saturn.
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12/22/07 - Cassini Headed South on Titan
Cassini successfully completed its most recent Titan flyby on Dec. 20, 2007, and data are currently being analyzed.
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12/18/07 - NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins Interplanetary Cruise Phase
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has begun the interplanetary cruise phase of its 8-year, 3-billion mile journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.
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12/18/07 - Mars: Closest Approach 2007
Now playing online -- a new Martian movie showing the planet rotating. The movie was made from four images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, built and designed by JPL.
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12/17/07 - Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy
A powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting another galaxy, according to new results from NASA telescopes, including Spitzer.
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12/17/07 - NASA Climate Change 'Peacemakers' Aided Nobel Effort
NASA's Earth scientists watched with pride when the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and a United Nations panel that spent two decades assessing Earth's changing climate.
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12/13/07 - Taking Another Look at Jupiter's Moon Europa
Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research and enhanced technology are bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its ice-covered ocean and determine its potential for harboring life.
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12/12/07 - Cassini Captures Best View Yet of Saturn's Ring Current
Scientists have gotten their best "look" ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn’s giant magnetic field.
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12/12/07 - Planetary Scientists Close in on Saturn's Elusive Rotation
Deep below Saturn's cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant speed. Determining this interior period of rotation has proven complicated, but thanks to new Cassini results, European scientists have taken an important step forward.
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